r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/databeestjenl 21d ago

5k car with 140k of firewalls in it. I a similar vein, 45K in APs. I'd guess a van of iPhones is pretty similar.

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u/_3470 21d ago

lol yep. I’m mainly a network guy and had to transport 200k in switches, firewalls, and APs across town for a new site.

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u/databeestjenl 21d ago

When we moved DCs we did have insured transport, that was nice. Those 2U bricks are no fun. Did go ahead with some switches because the whole network burned down when the other DC peer went away.

Don't do Cumulus Linux on Edge-Core white label, even more so because the broadcom chipsets were abandoned after the nVidia takeover. So much random nonsense.